#5ThoughtsFriday
12/29/2017The
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On behalf of the Brain Injury Association of Maryland, a heartfelt thanks to everyone who included the Brain Injury Association of Maryland in their giving plan this year.
Without your help, we would not have been able to provide help and hope the hundreds of families who contacted us this year.
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Click the Button above by Sunday night at midnight if you would like to like to make a tax deductible contribution to the Brain Injury Association for 2017.
Thank you for your support.
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Here are the 5 things we thought were
worth sharing with you this week:
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While cognitive abilities naturally decline with age, eating one serving of leafy green vegetables a day may aid in preserving memory and thinking skills as a person grows older, according to a study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The study results were published in the
December 20, issue of Neurology,
the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"Adding a daily serving of green leafy vegetables to your diet may be a simple way to help promote brain health," said study author Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush. "There continues to be sharp increases in the percentage of people with dementia as the oldest age groups continue to grow in number. Effective strategies to prevent dementia are critically needed."
The study results suggest that people who ate one serving of green, leafy vegetables had a slower rate of decline on tests of memory and thinking skills than people who rarely or never ate them. The study results also suggest that older adults who ate at least one serving of leafy green vegetables showed an equivalent of being 11 years younger cognitively.
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It's that time of year when, after weeks of excess booze and food consumption, we turn our attentions to self-improvement with New Year resolutions .
Putting aside the knowledge they are rarely kept beyond the first week of the year, now is the time to start with the best intentions.
It may be quitting booze for a month and raising some money and liver function, switching to vegetarian food after packing our digestive system with turkey, or maybe cutting consumer consumption to improve our personal finanace.
To jumpstart the self improvement kick for your impending 2018, we've come up with a few suggestions about what kind of resolutions might be good, and none of them involve joining a gym.
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According to one
study
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77% of people kept their resolutions for a week, but only 19% of people were able to keep up the
good work over two years
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Why is it so hard for us to keep our New Year’s resolutions?
How can you make it last?
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It’s always hard to make a lifestyle change, but it’s easy to keep a habit.
- You want to change too many things at once
Would you try to run a marathon after never having run in your life? Probably (and hopefully) not. The same goes for your New Year’s resolutions. It’s not impossible, but you would probably find it very difficult to quit smoking, eat better, and start exercising all at once. If your goal is too difficult, you’ll feel like it’s impossible to achieve and will get demotivated. Choose one thing and stick to that, and you’ll probably see how the other ones follow.
- You’re not being realistic
You’ve probably been told to shoot for the stars? Well, you might want to think about bringing those goals back down to Earth. If you give yourself a crazy goal, like trying to lose 30 lbs in a month, it’ll be unattainable and you’ll feel badly when you don’t reach it. Now sure how to start working out?
A lot of people think that you have to find your motivation, when really you have to build it from zero. Motivation isn’t something that someone else can impose on you, and it doesn’t magically happen. You feel motivated when you make yourself feel motivated!
If you’re trying to lose weight, but you have sweets, junk food, and your favorite frozen meal in the freezer, you’ll probably have a much harder time keeping your resolution. If you’re trying to drink less alcohol but have cans of beer in the fridge, you can see how it might make you want to have a drink when you get home from work.
To check out the other tips, and find out how you can KEEP your New's Year's resolution,
CLICK HERE
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2) What We Are "Reading" That You Might Enjoy...
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THE SIMPLEST WAY TO START YOUR DAY HAPPY
- Using the science of positive psychology to improve happiness, The Five Minute Journal focuses your attention on the good in your life. Improve your mental well-being and feel better every day.
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- The Five Minute Journal helps you cultivate gratitude. It changes how you feel, alters the actions you take, and therefore the results you will create...negativity be gone!
FINALLY KEEP A JOURNAL
- With a simple structured format that takes just 5 minutes, The Five Minute Journal is simple, quick, and effective. Whatever your excuse for not keeping a journal is, this journal will eliminate them.
For The Book,
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1) Quote We Are Contemplating...
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
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HEADWAY: BIAMD's eNewsletter is Online!
We are very excited to provide you an update on all that's been going on at the Brain Injury Association of Maryland and events happening in the near future!
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Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful weekend.
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